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Preface

1.  What's New in the Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Release

Installation Enhancements

ZFS Installation Enhancements

Support for Two-Terabyte Memory Systems

System Administration Enhancements

ZFS Features and Changes

SPARC: Support for Fast Reboot

User-Level CMT Observability Tools

diskinfo Utility

Oracle Configuration Manager

Flash Archive Integrity Check

Solaris Volume Manager Data Recovery

Oracle Solaris Groups Functionality

LDAP Name Service

x86: Generic FMA Topology Enumerator

Oracle VTS 7.0 ps11

System Performance Enhancements

smt_pause API

libmtmalloc Improvements

Tunable Parameter for Flash Devices in the sd.conf Configuration File

x86: Oracle Solaris I/O Interrupt Framework Enhancement for Nehalem-EX Platforms

x86: Intel AVX Support

Shared Memory Enhancements

Networking Enhancements

Support for IPv6 NAT on IPFilter

x86: Jumbo Frame Support in the bnx Driver

Security Enhancements

PKCS#11 Provider for Oracle Key Manager

Support for AES Cipher Suites in the KSSL

Assigning a New Password Does Not Unlock a Locked Account

Password Construction Policy Applies to the root User by Default

chroot Capability

Freeware Enhancements

Samba Upgrade to Version 3.5.8

x86: Bash Upgrade to Version 3.2

Apache C++ Standard Library Version 4 Support

New Device Support

Support for New Devices in the ixgbe Driver

Support for New Devices in the igb Driver

Support for LAN-On-Motherboard (LOM) Devices in the e1000g Driver

Support for New Devices in the bge Driver

Support for New Device in the qlcnic Driver

Support for New Device in the mcxnex/mcxe Driver

Support for New Devices in the scu Driver

x86: Support for LSI MegaRAID Falcon SAS 2.0 HBA Device

Support for LSI SAS 2308 HBA Device

Support for LSI SAS 2208 HBA Device

Driver Enhancements

Support for Public GLD Interfaces in the bge Driver

Support for MSI in the bge Driver

Jumbo Frame Support for BCM5718

Support for RDSv3 RDMA Interfaces

Chapter 1

What's New in the Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Release

This document summarizes all features that are new or have been enhanced in the current Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 release.

For a summary of all features in the Oracle Solaris operating system (OS) that were introduced or enhanced since the Solaris 9 OS was originally distributed in May 2002, see Solaris 10 What’s New.